METRO DATELINES

METRO DATELINES; Man Aims at Officers But Gun Misfires

Published: March 22, 1989

EAST FLATBUSH—
A 32-year-old man pulled a gun on two plainclothes officers yesterday, but the gun misfired and he was charged with attempted murder, the police said.

The man, Derrick Watson of 15 Hawthorne Street in the Flatbush area, was being followed by the officers because he had been ''observed behaving in a suspicious manner,'' a police spokesman, Officer Edward Feeney, said. The incident occurred at 12:43 P.M. at East 98th Street and Hegeman Avenue in the East Flatbush neighborhood. The police recovered the .45-caliber handgun that misfired.

Officer Feeney said that Mr. Watson was found with $50,000 and that the source of the money was being investigated.